Susan E Dinan: 1 book
Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France
The Early History of the Daughters of Charity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. Unusually for the time, this group of Catholic...
